Example sentences of "they can [adv] [be] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 But they can also be seen as communicatively motivated , the realization of available resources to get a message across .
2 They can also be repaired if punctured using PVC cement and/or patches .
3 Although there are many types of dementia they can generally be defined as involving progressive and irreversible brain failure .
4 Paying all pre-payments into a trust account from which they can not be withdrawn until the package has been provided .
5 So , whilst the perils of specialist slots are very real , they can not be relinquished before the mainstream becomes fully representative .
6 But they can not be altered unless they are first apprehended .
7 A problem with this idea is of course that most dreams are not remembered , so that even if solutions to problems are achieved during dreams they can not be regarded as adaptive , unless we are to believe that these solutions are somehow incorporated unconsciously .
8 For if such complexes ' are to play the role of particulars , they can not be regarded as being logically on a par with single qualities .
9 In the absence of this information , it is sound practice to make a secondary arrangement of key words ; they can not be left as they are above , for they make sense only as their interrelation is explicitly shown .
10 They can not be sexed when small , but it would be better to obtain an unrelated female to avoid inbreeding .
11 But it , as I have suggested , the structures of identity formation at work here are fundamental to our existing cultural forms , they can not be considered as stemming only from the psychoanalytic tradition .
12 The position is that when we admit anyone to nursing home care , they can only be admitted if there is a joint assessment partly by a social worker from this department , partly by either the nurse or G P , or consultant , and the , the key element needless to say in that , in terms of need , is very much the health authority input .
13 But their limitation has been that they can only be used when all the well data is available — after it has been drilled .
14 They can therefore be visualized as potential cellular automata capable of imprinting their pattern on the surrounding body fluids .
15 Theories can be conclusively falsified in the light of suitable evidence , whereas they can never be established as true or even probably true whatever the evidence .
16 They are effective , yes , but like gassing they can almost be eliminated if we use our sporting methods with greater skill .
17 In the case of the terminally ill , their use is ordinarily uncalled-for , since they can readily be categorized as heroic , or extraordinary , therapy , imposing a further burden of discomfort on the patient with no foreseeable benefit in terms of increased comfort in the future .
18 Politicians and fortune-tellers can avoid being accused of making mistakes by making their assertions so vague that they can always be construed as compatible with whatever may eventuate .
19 But even though sponges can produce such miraculous complexities as this , they can hardly be counted as properly integrated multicellular animals .
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